When HIV women give birth to a child what do they do there? Cause lets not forget breast milk, since children (particularly in the third world) rely on breast milk for a long time. It's really a conundrum for HIV-positive mothers: without breast milk their baby would probably die. Transmission rates from mother-to-child is about 20% through natural child birth (without treatment). But with treatment and a C-section the rate is something like 1%.......